School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
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- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- The most harmful weeds are dockroot, nettle, chickenweed, thistle & crow-foot. Chickenweed is harmful because it spreads quickly. It grows in good land. Dockroot is a cure for swelling on horses.
- The most harmful roots are dockroots & thistles, which grow very high & spread very far. Dockroots spread & take all the goodness out of the soil. Prashock is another harmful root as if the seeds fall off, they will mix with the corn & destroy it.
If nettles are pulled in May, boiled & eathen, they will keep sickness from the people for the rest of the year.